Found guilty, despite no body and all circumstantial evidence. It was hard to see past him but the defence will appeal. A jury of six lay people and three magistrates. It’s quite hard to imagine how that works in practice.
The Jubillar house is about one km away from me as the crow files so it’s a hot topic in our area. A few days after her disappearence the police held a ‘battu’ or a search of the area with dogs. They were at the back of my house in the woods , gradually extending the search to a much wider area. They found nothing of course but everyone here know he dumped the body somewhere. He was always présuméd guilty based on the local knowlege of the family.
The house is a sorry sight, grim and unfinished. The best that can happen is that it’s demolished.
À sad affair all round….
I do wonder if she really left of her own accord and knows she can’t contact her kids or family at all at the risk of being killed by him eventually should she have remained. If you want to, you can totally disappear providing you leave no trace of your former life.
I would have thought it really quite difficult in the modern day, especially if someone really wants to find you.
Interesting - but how do you ‘leave no trace of former life’ - when you already exist in tax records, etc etc etc……..
Starting under an assumed name, and fake background - (I’ve been reading too many crime novels!!) is possible with right (or wrong !) contacts and cash assets. But don’t you always leave a trace of your former life - surely that’s not possible..
I don’t/didn’t know her, of course, but I can’t believe she wouldn’t have been in contact with somebody if she were still alive.
Just a theory as I read/watch a lot of murder thrillers and many of those have people who have simply disappeared to save their own lives. I suppose if you have help and she was known by friends to be a victim of domestic violence, do a lot of planning etc it is possible. Maybe he put her under the house somewhere that can’t be detected by technology having burned her body first elsewhere.